Mainframe technologies at home? Try IBM POWER Architecture with Linux on the PS3
With Katalin Walcott, World Wide Principal Linux On POWER
The IBM POWER processor architecture is much more than just a family of chips. It is a comprehensive systems-design approach derived from a single architectural framework balancing workloads on AIX and Linux with equal effectivenes. The POWER processor provides a systems-based control point that is structured to integrate technology across the solution for maximum success as a unified architecture. As a result, the POWER product base is diverse, ranging from game consoles and blade servers to desktops and supercomputers. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the IBM POWER trends and directions, with primary focus on the capabilities and advantages of the POWER processor with Linux.
Katalin Walcott is is the World Wide Principal and Certified Specialist for
the IBM Systems Group Linux On POWER Sales Team. She has over 24 years of
UNIX experience and 17 years at IBM as a midrange technical expert.
Katalin recently joined this team coming from the IBM Scorpion IT
Optimization team, where she lead a team of methods experts for high
profile IBM customers providing consulting services to effectively displace
competitive vendor solutions with IBM Systems, software and services based
solutions by significantly reducing the total cost and complexity of the
customers IT server infrastructure.
She was also responsible for the
Virtualization Engine services and primary focal point for the Systems
Group On-Demand technical services and methods.
Her background is IBM Global Technology Services, where she built the adoption of Linux as an IGS services capability in 1998, and directed the Global Linux and Open Source services and business strategy team through 2001.